Magit is mind blowing.
How did the magit guy or people even come up with the data model? Always had the feeling that it went beyond the git data model. And git porcelain is just a pile of shards.
How did the magit guy or people even come up with the data model? Always had the feeling that it went beyond the git data model. And git porcelain is just a pile of shards.
It's not all that different from a typical TUI interface.
Magit isn't great because of the interface. It's great because the alternative (plain git) has such a crappy interface. Contrast principle and all.
And that's different from many TUIs how?
I moved to NeoVim many years ago and have been using NeoGit (a supposed Magit clone) the entire time. It's good but I'm missing the "mind blowing" part. I'd love to learn more though! What features are you using that you consider amazing?
If you want to do some really advanced stuff, sure it's a little arcane, but the vast majority of stuff that people use in git is easy enough. Branching and committing and merging never seemed that hard to me.
I'm as hardcode CLI user as it gets, I've only lived in the CLI since the mid 80s and still firmly there.
git is the absolute worst CLI ever in the history of humanity.
the big thing i am missing from it is a branch history. a record for every commit to which branch it once belonged to. no improved interface can fix that. that would have to be added to the core of git.